THE JOURNEY OF AN ENLIGHTENED LEADER

Book excerpt: From a spiritual viewpoint, enlightenment essentially means to know the truth about oneself. Acquiring this truth can be extremely difficult, because one’s sense of self is typically tangled in a history of perceptions, assumptions, beliefs, and emotions that over time may have created a somewhat false sense of self. Personal work in this area can do nothing but improve the effectiveness of any leader. For purposes of this book, an enlightened leader is one who strives to hold accurate beliefs and to use management practices that are consistent with those beliefs.